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Degree Objective: Ph.D. in Biological Sciences Caleb M. Kersey is a doctoral candidate at Tennes-see State University where he will be receiving his PhD degree in Biological Sciences under the guid-ance of C. Korsi Dumenyo at the School of Agricul-ture and Consumer Sciences (SACS) in May 2011. Caleb’s dissertation project, entitled “Regulation of Pectobacterium Virulence by Membrane Transport-ers,” made him the first winner of the TSU Graduate School’s Helen Barrett Award for outstanding achievement in research. His dissertation examined a plant pathogenic bacterium called Pectobacterium carotovorum that causes soft rot disease affecting a number of plant species including several economi-cally important vegetable crops. This disease is characterized by plant tissue maceration and rotting which results from plant cell wall-degrading en-zymes produced by the bacterium. His research fo-cused on the functional genomics of
In the Spotlight: Caleb Kersey
TSU Graduate Student “the Face of a New Campaign” Cheryll Collins RN, BSN, OCN, graduate student at TSU’s School of Nursing is now the face of a new campaign to raise awareness for "Risk for Mucocu-taneous Blood Exposure for Nurses and Health Care Workers" sponsored by BD Medical, a medical tech-nology company. She has been invited to speak at several symposiums the first one in Paris France that is hosted by a 30 hospital system. She will also speak at the AVA convention in May and the APIC convention in October. Cheryll has been featured in an ad outlining the awareness campaign. The ad has been featured in several nursing magazines such as Nursing 2011, AJN, Journal of Emergency Nursing and the INS Standards and Guidelines for 2011, a four year pub-lication. Cheryll also authors a blog site that outlines her own exposure www.cheryllstory.com and she hopes that in sharing her story others will come forward as well so we may begin to change (Continued on page 8)
School of Graduate Studies & Research
Spring & Summer 2011 Volume 4, Issue 2
Graduate School News
2011 SUMMER SEMESTER SESSIONS
SCHOOL DATES
Full Session (10 Weeks)
May 31-August 5
Session I (First 5 Weeks)
May 31– July 1
Session I (Second 5 Weeks)
July 5-August 5
SUMMER REGISTRATION
Regular Registration
May 26-27 (All Sessions)
Late Registration
May 31-June 1 (Sessions I & II)
July 5-6 (Second 5 Weeks)
Inside this issue:
Spotlight: Caleb Kersey 1
Graduate Student Face of a Campaign
1
Graduate Student & Fac-ulty Accomplishments
3
Approved Theses/Dissertations
4
Graduate School Open House
7
Walter Davis Scholarship Award
7
Requirements for Admis-sion to Candidacy
8
Caleb Kersey
Cheryll Collins
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Mark Your Calendar! Spring 2011 Workshops
Thesis/Dissertation
Workshop
April 8, 2011
Master’s & Doctoral Candidates defending
theses/dissertations in Spring 2011 are encour-
aged to attend.
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Brown-Daniel Library, Room 317
Students will be notified via MYTSU e-mail
accounts registration process. For additional
information visit: www.tnstate.edu/grad.
_____________________________________
Avoiding Plagiarism
Workshop
April 6, 2011
Graduate Students beginning or completing
theses/dissertations are encouraged to register
for the workshop.
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Holland Hall, Room 102
Students will be notified via MYTSU e-mail
accounts registration process. For additional
information visit: www.tnstate.edu/grad.
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Why Graduate Educa-
tion Matters
April 2011
TSU Juniors and Seniors are encouraged to
register for workshop. Date, Time and location
will be posted online at: www.tnstate.edu/
grad. Students will be notified via MYTSU e-
mail accounts.
Caleb Kersey
P. carotovorum where he used molecular and genomics approaches to discover bac-terial genes which are involved in soft rot disease. Caleb’s research revealed two P. carotovorum membrane transport proteins which affect the production of the arsenal of enzymes this bacterium uses to cause the soft rot disease in its host. From this work, he has submitted two manuscripts which are currently under review and he is in the process of preparing a third manuscript. Through his graduate work at TSU, he has presented his research at the national meetings of both the American Society for Microbiology and American Phytopa-thological Society, both of which he is a member. Locally, his oral and poster presen-tations at the University-wide Research Symposium have won first place students presentations in 2009 and 2010. Before joining the lab of Dr. Dumenyo, Caleb worked under the guidance of Dr. E.
Kudjo Dzantor, also of SACS where, he studied the bioremediation of pesticides in
soil. Caleb used a molecular approach to profile members of rhizosphere microbial
communities that are important for the biodegradation of pesticides. Caleb will rep-
resent TSU in April at this year’s poster presentation at the Legislative Plaza in
Nashville. He will join other graduate students from the state that are members of
the Tennessee Conference of Graduate Schools (TCGS) in displaying a poster of his
dissertation research.
Caleb attributes his success at TSU to the wonderful leadership and guidance given
to him by his mentors. “Both Dr. Dzantor and Dr. Dumenyo provided me with an
opportunity to learn and showed me how to become a scientist. Success in the lab
requires hard work and dedication of both time and energy and they not only told
me this but they showed me by their own actions. They taught me how to think
critically and how to search for what I don’t know. I thank them so much for push-
ing me and always having confidence in me in everything I do. I know that any suc-
cess I have in the future will forever be linked to them.
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ALUMNA HIGHLIGHT This fall, College of Public Service & Urban Affairs (CPSUA) alumna Jittaun A. Dill (’01 MPA, Health Certificate) has joined the Missouri law firm of Williams Venker & Sanders LLC. Jittaun is a graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law. In addi-tion to her law degree, she holds a Masters in Public Administration with a Certifi-cate in Health Administration and Planning from Tennessee State University. This background gives her a unique perspective on cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury and premises liabilities. Reflecting on her studies at TSU, Ms. Dill noted, "My MPA degree prepared me to be more sensitive to, and analytical of, the potential impact legislation and health care policies have on administrative agencies and - most importantly - our public. As a TSU alumna, my forever challenge is, 'To think, to work, to serve.'" Jittaun regularly volunteers with the organization, Almost Home, and is a Child Advocate for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).
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PUBLIC SERVICE AND URBAN AFFAIRS
The C.A.R.E.S. team of A. Dexter Samuels, Sonja Revell, and Dev-
lin Hytche-Sims, was awarded a grant in the amount of $167,288
from the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office (10/2010-
9/2011). This community injury prevention program uses multi-
ple strategies of education, enforcement and environmental modi-
fications to address the needs of minority and low income popula-
tions. The staff will examine the motor vehicle safety habits and
perception of risks of these communities. It is anticipated that this
work will lead to the development of culturally and linguistically
competent educational interventions that will increase compli-
ance with safety laws and ultimately reduce unintentional inju-
ries.
Megan E. Streams’ manuscript with coauthors J.S. Butler, Joshua
Cowen, Jacob Fowe and Genia Toma entitled “School finance
reform: do equalized expenditures imply equalized teacher sala-
ries?” is in press with the MIT Press journal, Education Finance
and Policy.
A. Dexter Samuels’ article entitled “The Underserved Aged and
the Emerging Role of the African American Church” was accepted
for publication by the Journal of Cultural Diversity. This body of
work focuses on the opportunity for the African American church
to provide direct or indirect health services to the underserved
aged.
PSYCHOLOGY
Heather Joppich, a second year Ph.D. Counseling Psychology stu-dent, has been selected as a peer reviewer for the Graduate Stu-dent Journal of Psychology. This selection was based on Ms. Jop-pich’s completion of 5 sample reviews. We congratulations are in order for this accomplishment. K. Nicole Hendrix participated at TPA 's (Tennessee Psychologi-cal Association) annual conference's graduate poster seminar on Friday, October 29th at the airport Marriott Hotel, Nashville, TN. Nicole and and Dr. Joan Popkin, Associate Professor at Tennessee State University collaborated on the research.
PHYSICAL THERAPY Barredo, R. D. V, Murphree, A. M. and Raynes, E. A. (2010) Factors Influencing Philosophies of Care of Student Physical Therapist
Graduate Student & Faculty Accomplishments
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Assistants After the First Clinical Education Experi-ence, International Journal of Social Health Informa-tion Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 13-20. Raynes, E. A., Barredo, R. D. V., Kunnu, E., Housel, N. and O’Connell Jr., R. R. (2010) Should Immuniza-tion be a Public Health Mandate or an Individual Choice?, International Journal of Social Health Infor-mation Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 44-49. Raynes, E. A., Barredo, R., Kunnu, E., Housel, N., and O’Connell, R. (2010). Should Immunization be a Public Health Mandate or an Individual Choice? pre-sented in the Intellectbase International Consor-tium Academic Conference. Nashville, Tn. May 27, 2010. MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING
Hu, H., Ojetola, A., and Hamidzadeh, H. R.,
“Dynamic response of gun-barrels excited by mov-
ing bullet,” accepted for publication, ASME, IMECE,
2010
Hamidzadeh, H. R., “A survey of analytical methods
for vibrations of soils and foundations,” Book Chap-
ter, Under press, Springer Publishing Co., 2010.
Vinayak, E., Shirkhodaie, A., and Rababaah, A.,
“Context-based semantic labeling of human-vehicle
interactions in persistent surveillance systems, 13th
International Conference on Information Fusion, 26-
29 July 2010 EICC Edinburgh, UK.
Rababaah, H., Shirkhodaie, A., “Semantic labeling
of non-stationary vehicular acoustic events in per-
sistent surveillance systems,” 13th International
Conference on Information Fusion, 26-29 July 2010
EICC Edinburgh, UK.
Shirkhodaie, A., Rababaah, H., "Multi-layered con-
text impact modulation for enhanced focus of atten-
tion of situation awareness in persistent surveil-
lance systems", Multisensor, Multisource Informa-
tion Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applica-
tions, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7710 (SPIE, Belling-
ham, WA 2010), paper number 7710.
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MAY
26-27 Registration -All Summer Sessions
30 Holiday – Memorial Day
31 Classes Begin - Late Registration
JUNE
1 Late Registration
4 Doctoral Examinations
17 Last Day to Withdraw from Courses
(First Five-Week Session)
18 M.Ed. & MS Comprehensive Exams
JULY
4 Holiday– Independence Day
5-6 Late Registration (Second Five Week
Session)
8 Last Day to Withdraw from Courses (10-
Week Session); Last Day to Withdraw
from University
8 Last Day to Defend Thesis/Dissertation
19 Last Day to File for Doctoral Examina-
tions in Fall 2011
22 Last Day to Withdraw from Coursework
(Second Five Week Session); Last Week
to Withdraw from University (2nd Five-
Week Session)
22 Last Day for Electronic Thesis/Dissert-
ation Submission for Summer 2011
Graduation
AUGUST
5 Last Day of Classes
6 Summer Commencement
Summer 2011 Dates to
Remember!
Graduate Student & Faculty Accomplishments
CHEMISTRY Olugbeminiyi O. Fadeyi, a former graduate student of Dr. Cosmas
Okoro's research group, who obtained his M.S. in 2007, is about
to receive his Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Fadeyi has
been offered a postdoctoral position at Harvard University.
Dr. Joshua Moore's former student's (Mr. Prashant Bajaj, M.S. Decem-ber 2009), thesis has been published in the journal, Materials Chemis-try and Physics. The complete citation is: Bajaj, P.; Woodruff, E.A., Moore, J.T. Synthesis of PbSe/SiO2 and PbTe/SiO2 Nanocomposites using the sol-gel process. Mater. Chem. Phys. 2010, 123, 581-584.
Ms. Shahrina Alam (’09) completed her M.S. degree in chemistry under the direc-tion of Dr. Al-Masum. She presented her research “Potassium allyltrifluoroborates and its use in organic transformations” in the American Chemical Society meeting and published it in the peer reviewed international journal, Tetrahedron Let-ters, 2009, 50, 5201. Shahrina is awarded a full fellowship (Fall 2011) for her Ph.D. study in Chemistry at the Uni-versity of Tennessee Knoxville. Shahrina Alam
Ms. Eunice Ng completed her B.S. degree in chemistry in December, 2010 at TSU. Her research was di-rected by Dr. Al Masum. The title of her research was “Pd-catalyzed mi-crowave irradiated cross-coupling reactions of potassium arylvinyl-trifluoroborates and benzoyl hal-ides.” She presented her work in the annual undergraduate Tennessee Academy of Science symposium 2010 at Belmont University and
Eunice Ng
earned first place. Eunice is
awarded a fellowship by
Emory University to pursue
Ph.D. in Chemistry (Fall ‘11)
Nazanin Ghazialsharif
Ms. Nazanin Ghazialsharif com-pleted her B.S. degree in chemistry in 2010 under the direction of Dr. Al Mansum. Her research title was “Catalyst free oxazolidine synthesis using aldehydes and ketones with 2-(methylamino)
ethanol.” Nazanin has been ad-mitted to the Dental College of the University of Tennessee Medical Science, Memphis (Fall 2011).
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Approved Theses/Dissertations, May - December 2010
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Approved Theses/Dissertations, May - December 2010
Mahesh Kumar Aitha Interactions of DNA Bases with Selected Metal Ions Christopher Michael Beals Chemilunescent Examination of Watercress Oxidative Stress
and Trophic Level Assessment of Water Quality Using the Mus-tard Beetle
Carlos D. Beane Control of Time-Delayed Markovian Jump Linear System Jeanne R. Bruce Teachers’ Perception of the Inclusion of Students with Disabili-
ties in the General Education Classroom FaMitah QuiAnna Buchanan Localization of RAR alpha and RAR gamma in
Mouse Embryonal and Mouse Embryonic Cells Ron Becker Analysis of Parent, Teacher, and Student Perceptions of Parent
Involvement at a Sumner County High School
Nora C. Brandon Employment of Ex-offenders: A Study of Community Percep-
tions of Prior Convictions Reported on the Employment Appli-
cation Brittany LaDale Brown Organic Farming and Factors Influencing its Adoptions: A
Study of Tennessee Farmers
Nancy Gail Caukin Science Writing Heurisitc: A Writing to Learn Strategy and its
Effect on Science Achievement, Science Self-Efficacy, and Sci-entific Epistemological View
LeEllen Bedford Carter
The Practice of Mentoring: A Comparative Study of Career and
Psychosocial Functions of Mentoring among Educational Ad-
ministrators in Tennessee K-12 Public Schools
Angela Marie Chapman Examining the Effects of Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment on
Kindegarten Reading Readiness Amanda Cooksey Daniel Immorality-Blackness Associations and the Moral-Purity Meta-
phor in African Americans
Gina Lannette Dildine General Education teachers' perceptions of their role in develop-
ing individual education programs and their use of IEPs to de-
velop instructional plans for students with disabilities.
Tamika Rochelle Dobbins Citizens' Perceptions of Sex Offender Registration and Notifica-
tion Joyce Marie Fletcher An Examination of the Effect of Depression on the Cognitive
Functioning and Academic Performance of College Students Christeny Gary Graduate Students' Learning Styles and Perceptions of Course
Management Systems
Courtney D. Green
College Student Perceptions of Whether Child Abuse Influences
Crime
Ta'Cillia L. Grimes Variables that Affect Crime in the 95 Counties in Tennessee Allison J. Gunne Convergent Validity of the Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy
Skills with the Test of Phonological Awareness in Spanish and
the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing in English Whitney Hatton
Synthesis and Characterization of Lanthanide Based Nanoparti-
cles Using Polysaccharides Matthew Heiner Sanctification of Sexual Relationships in African American Uni-
versity Students
Rosalind Sue Holloway
Perceptions of College Students on the Theory of Evolution
Leigh Van Horn
Expectancy Violations of the Division of Labor on Marital Satis-
faction across the Transition to Parenthood Emmeline Cook Houck The Relationship Between Moral Reasoning and the Multidimen-
sional Model of Racial Identity Joseph Edward Jones Professional Growth among K-12 Teachers: The Development of
a Culture of Experimentation, Reflection, and Collaboration
Approved Theses and Dissertations, June - December 2010
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Anisha Mabry Jones Factors That Influence Student Drug Use in a Small Rural Ten-
nessee School District Courtney Alicia Kennemore Spectroscopic Studies Involving Antiretrovirals Factors Associ-ated with Inclusive Classroom Teachers’ Implementation of Differ-entiated Instruction for Diverse Learners
Jennifer Gillespie Littleton
Technology Implementation Effectiveness and Training of
Teachers and Administrators in Secondary Schools
Zong Liu
Identification of Mechanisms for Cold Tolerance in Helleborus
Orientalis Lam
Charles Anthony Long The Academic Performance in Cohort-Based Pre-service Teacher Education Programs Sharon Elizabeth Matthews The Relationship Between Student Voice and Perceptions of
Motivation, Attachment, Achievement and School Climate in
Davidson and Rutherford Counties Kim McCormick A Study of the Relationship between High School Dual Enroll-
ment Participation and College Persistence, Including Potential
Intervening Variables, in Southeast Tennessee
Kathleen Rosetta McDermott
Using Spatial Analysis to Determine the Proximity of Concen-
trated Animal Feedlot Operations to Watershed Pollution in
Tennessee
Marcia Garrett Melton A Comparison of Achievement in K-8 Schools and 6-8 Schools
Turner Nashe Jr. An analysis of inmates in Davidson County, Tennessee: Fac-tors that impact participation in GED programs. Sabah Omer Odman-Ghazi Effects of Butytins on Cytosolic Calcium on Levels, Marks Signaling Pathways and Apoptotic pathways in Human Natu-ral Killer Cells Akindeji O. Ojetola Development of Analytical Technique, Tool, and Metric for Seat Comfort Prediction
Sana Nasir The Marriage Squeeze: A Comparison Between African American and European American Educated Women Joseph Lee Perry Critical Elements Affecting Retention of First-Time, Full-time Freshmen at Tennessee State University Lela O, Pirtle Variables that Predict Reported Domestic Violence Laminta Glynis Poe Students’ Perceptions of Marital Rape Laws Shana Jean Reece The Relationship among Stress Burnout, and Locus of Con-trol of School Psychologists DeMica C. Robinson A Qualitative Examination of the Effectiveness of Peer/Teen Courts in Wilson County, Tennessee Meghen Lois Sanders Bete Noire No More: The Effects of Code Switching in a High Poverty, Urban High School in Tennessee Thomas Lee Spann, Jr. A Survey of Selected Percussion Ensemble Literature: 1930-1985 Taadesse Duga Wake Pseudoinverses Joy Twanda Williams Effects of Daughter's Perceptions of Mother's Body Image on Personal Body Image and Related Issues Randall Von Wordlaw Profile of Agribusinesses in Tennessee: Knowledge of Inter-national Markets, Needs and Informational Sources Ashwini Kumar Reddy Yalala Market Approach Based Decentralized Resource Allocation System for multi-Tasks and Multi-Users in Wireless Sensor Networks Shannon Marie Youngman The Role of the Instructional Technology Coach in Improving Elementary Teachers' Perceived Ability to Meet the National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indica-tors for Teachers
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The Walter Strother Davis Scholarship Award
In memory of Dr. Walter S. Davis, President of Tennessee State Univer-
sity, 1943-1968, Mrs. Ivanetta Davis, his wife, and Dr. Ivan Davis, his son,
established the Walter Strother Davis Scholarship Fund.
Each Spring, a $1,000.00 scholarship is awarded to the Tennessee State
University graduate who has demonstrated the ability for advanced study
and research. The award must be used for study leading to the Master’s de-
gree at Tennessee State University.
The scholarship is available only to students eligible for the May
graduation. Eligibility is further limited to those students who have a Grade
Point Average of 3.75 or higher for the May Graduation.
Persons desiring more information or application forms should con-
tact the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
School of Graduate Studies & Research
Holland Hall, Suite 200
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209
Phone: 615-963-5901
Fax: 615-963-5963
E-mail: [email protected]
Requirements for Admission
to Candidacy When a master’s student has completed nine (9) semester hours of graduate credits with a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or higher, and has re-moved all incomplete (I-grades) from the permanent record in the Office of Admissions and Records, and met any admissions conditions, the student is ready to be admitted to candidacy.
Doctoral students please refer to the departmental sections of the Graduate Catalog for program specific procedures for admission to candidacy.
Source: 2009-2011 Graduate Catalog, page,31.
TSU Graduate Student “the Face of a New Campaign” attitudes that accept any unnecessary exposure to blood. Cheryll expects to graduate the MSN program in May 2011 but plans to re-turn for a post graduate certificate for Nursing Education.
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615-963-2278
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Mohammad Karim, Ph.D.
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Secretary
Karon Fairs
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Graduate School News is published each
semester by the School of Graduate Studies
and Research, Tennessee State University.
Its purpose is to provide timely and useful
information to graduate students at
Tennessee State University.
Direct all questions to Alex Sekwat or
Mohammad Karim at:
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MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING
ENGINEERING
Hu, H., Onyebueke, L., and Abatan, A., “ Characterizing and Modeling Mechanical Properties of Nanocompo-sites-Review and Evaluation”, Journal of Minerals Char-acterization & Engineering, Vol. 9, No 4, pp. 275-319, 2010. Ojetola, A., Onyebueke, L., and Winkler, E., “Static Comfort Assessments for Ejection Seat Cushions in Three Different Rail Angles”, 2010 ASME IMECE Confer-ence Proceedings, Vancouver, CANADA, November 12th – 18th , 2010. Hamidzadeh, H. R., “A survey of analytical methods for vibrations of soils and foundations,” Book Chapter, Un-der press, Springer Publishing Co., 2010.
Rababaah, H., Shirkhodaie, A., "Twitter web-service for soft agent situation reporting in persis-tent surveillance systems", Cyber Security, Situa-tion Management, and Impact Assessment 2010, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7709 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2010), paper number 7709A.
